Homework 1

Reading:
Please read sections 1.1 and 1.2 of the Yates/Goodman text.
Quizzes 1.1 and 1.2 in the text are good to test your understanding.
I suggest that you solve all of the "quiz" problems as
you read the text.
Note that solutions to all of the quizzes are contained in
Appendix B.
The problems in item 3 below are related to the material
in section 1.2.

For next week's classes, please finish reading Chapter 1.
In particular,
please study sections 1.3-1.6 carefully.
These sections define the axioms of probability,
conditional probability, and other fundamental concepts that
will be extremely important for the rest of the course.

We will have a short quiz on January 25.
The quiz will cover the material from
the January 18 and 23 classes and from
sections 1.1 and 1.2 of the text.